On the record
If you wish to ride with me you must come into the “Jim Crow Car.” There will be no objection,—already four other white men, and a little white girl with her nurse, are in there.
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Du Bois critiques the segregation of public transport, highlighting the absurdity of racial discrimination.
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